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(No Model.) 7 H. J. BICKLE.

HAME TUG AND BUCKLE. I No. 321,944. Patented July 14, 1885.

UNIT D STATES HENRY JAMES BIGKLE, OF DUNGANNON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

HAME TUG AND BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,944, dated July 14, 1885.

Application filed April 2!), 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY JAMES BIOKLE, of the village of Dungannon, in the county of Huron, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improved Hame Tug and Buckle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention has for its object thesimplifying of the tug, and that it wiil haveincreased durability to that of the tug now in general use. Itwill not stick and be difficult to loosen in order to make a fresh adjustment of the trace, and it will not be subject to crack and break, which the present tug frequently does.

The invention consists in the substitution of a metallic tug for that of the ordinary tug, which is made of leather and connected to the trace by means of a common buckle, which mode of construction necessitates the piercing of a series of holes in the tug for the lengthening or shortening of the trace by means of the common buckle. The leather gets hard and retains the form it is doubled into from the buckle, and in loosening it from the said buckle it has frequently to be hammered, when it cracks and breaks at the buckle-holes, and causes much trouble and delay in making the adjustment.

- My improved tug and buckle does not stick,

- and gives no trouble, nor causes any. delay in the adjustment of the trace.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my metallic tug, hav'hg a portion thereof removed from the mid 1c of the same. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the tug, having also a portion thereof removed. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the tug with the trace and buckle connected therewith. A portion of the tug and also of the trace are removed in this figure. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the tug with the buckle and trace. A portion of the tug and also of the trace are removed in this figure. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the buckle loop or clamp without the plate thereof. Fig. 6 is a transverse section through the buckle, loop, and plate, and showing the ends of the bar (1 in dotted lines, and showing, also, the tug and trace. Fig. 7 is a plan of the forward end of the trace prepared to receive the plate of the buckle, which plate has two prongs which occupy the apertures shown in the trace hereinafter more fully described.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the views as in this specification.

A represents the metallic tug, having a flange, a, running along each edge of its upof the tug, and a belly-band holder, 'a, on the lower edge thereof, and a curved bar, a", for keeping the trace flat upon the tug and turned up to receive the breeehing-strap. G is the buckle proper; O, the plate thereof; 0", lts lower face, having a flange, c, on each outer edge thereof, and two prongs, c protruding from the face, which occupy two corresponding apertures in the trace when in position; 0 the upper face of the buckle-plate, having two hooks, c and a depression, 0 therein 3 D, a compound angular loop, which forms the lock of the buckle, having two transverse bars, d d which are bent downwardly over the edges of the tug and inwardly toward each other, and joined at a point, (i and having a transverse bar, d, connecting the'points d, which bar has a prong, d projecting therefrom, which occu: pies alternately, as required, the apertures a in the under face of the tug.

E represents the trace, having two apertures, c e, in its upper face, which receive the prongs c of the buckle-plate, and retain the said plate and trace unchangeable in this position, as shown in Fig. 4.

The holders a and a are reversible-that is, the holder a one side of the horse becomes the holder a on the opposite side; or, in other words, their positions are reversed, the flanged side of the tug being always next to the horse.

Referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that there are a number of apertures, a in the under" not elements in this section, the position of said ends is shown in dotted lines, and is to n. eerlztin extent cxpluintlory oi the other elements oi the figure.

in making :L l'resh :uliustment of the truce, take the w A in the left hand, and with the right hand press the trace Fl inwardly in the direction of the tug. This will loosen the loop. Then lift up the bar it of the loop and slide it back into the depression 0 in the face of the phtte, when the prong IF will come out of" the aperture It in the tug, nml will he eleztr ei'ihe same. The truce is new tree to he moved to the length required, und when this is obtained find the nearest aperture a" in the tug, and press up the cross-bur (1 until the prong d? gets into this aperture, and now, on drawing outwardly the trace E from the tug A, the adjustment is complete. \Vith a little practice this adjustment will be mztde in much less time than. with a leather tug and the common buchle,which have frequent ly to be beaten with it hummer until the leuther is pliuble enough to be dratwn through the buckle.

My tug and buckle being weatherproof, it will never stick, and therefore will cause no delay in the adjustment, and is consequently superior to the ordimtry tug; nud buckle.

Having thus described my invention, ll cluim 1. A metallic home-tug, A, constructed, as described, with a flange, a, on each upper edge of its [lice (0, and provided with a, clip, B, on its forward end, and :it the reztr end is provided with :t buck-bend holder, (6, and a bellybnnd holder, to, tnd 1t curved bur, a, also apertures (die the under face thereof, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. 111 at metallic heme-tug constructed as shown and described, the combination of it buckle, U, with plate .3 having it lhtuge, a, on ouch edge of its under iitce, c", which face has two prongs, a, protruding therefrom to occupy two corresponding :tpertures, e c, in the trace 1G, and secure the buckle-plate and trace in position, the outer face of the buckle-plate, 0", provided with two hooks, c, and a depression, 0 therein, the compound angular loop D, with cross-burs d d, and the under crossbar, (1*, with prong d projecting upwardly therefrom, the whole constructed, and arranged, and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Dunganuou, April ll, 1885,

HENRY J AMES BIGKLE, In presence ofl). E. (tun-mow, 13. .l'. (hm'wtonn,

Lucknow, Ontario, 

